PRESIDENT GARFIELD’S PHYSICIANS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1083, 2 March 1883, Page 3

PRESIDENT GARFIELD’S PHYSICIANS.

Dr Hamilton having now filed hia claim for 1.5000, the same as that of Dr Bliss, for the medical treatment of the late President Garfield, and Mrs Susan Edison hers for L2OOO, the totals are complete. They amount in all to something less than. L 20,000, tor which L7OOO have been appropriated by Congress. They are all, preposterous, not to say impudent claims, and are made only because there seems to be an unborn belief in eveiv American having dealings with one government that the United states I reasury can be despoiled ot sums which a private individual would resent as a sheer attempt of robbery and fraud. .Mrs I-nsan Edison could no more earn L2OOO I y two mouths’ nursing under any circumstances whatever than she could earn it bytwo months’ washing, and she and the other assistants, stewards, watchmen and waiters who estimate the value of their time in the White House while Garfield was ill at the late of L2 a minute, would for such an attempt at extortion be dismissed from a private situation. . . Dr Boynton, Mrs Garfield’s own physician, and the only one actually and personally called to his bedside by ' the 1 residents famdy, and whose intellige *t, moderate, and trustworthy information- from the sick chamber ■ illumined the public miud far more than the official bulletins, has as.yet;-, asked nothing for his services; and .' there seems to be no prospect of his - doing so. It would be unjust to urge • that Boynton should be rewarded for his decency, the others disallowed for their greed ; but there would be in the public mind a certain sense of decorum gratified if Boynton als > were to be paid a reasonable price for his services.—American Paper.